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A Suicide Cult's Surviving Members Still Maintain Its 90s Website

It's been almost 20 years since the members of Heaven's Gate killed themselves in hopes of entering the Next Level.

But nearly 20 years after the strange deaths, part of the cult’s legacy lives on via its perfectly preserved retro website, loyally maintained by two surviving members. The site provides lengthy explanations of the cult’s beliefs, a warning against suicide —other than in their very specific situation, Heaven’s Gate sees it as a futile act—and eerie “exit statements” from some of the members who killed themselves. The admins simply told me they stayed behind because they were asked to, but in an interview with Reddit’s blog, Upvoted, last year, they went into a little more detail, explaining that those on the Next Level will return at some point, and anyone on Earth who is ready may have an opportunity to join them.

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